Taylor Shelton

My dad sent me the latest Paul Krugman newsletter about Atlanta and for some reason his citation for the idea that you "aren't allowed to build multifamily housing" in Atlanta is an editorial from a high school student newspaper 🤦‍♂️

Very cool that my employer is finally switching from Webex to Zoom about five years after it would have made a meaningfully positive difference in our lives #betterlatethannever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The wife is out of town and not able to watch Love Island at the same time, so she just received 17 consecutive texts with my play-by-play of tonight's episode before finally responding

We’re delighted to share our latest article, an excerpt from Hannah Palmer’s latest book “The Pool is Closed”. As she writes in the introduction, this piece “feels like the emotional heart of my book and it isn’t even about pools.”

Check it out 👇👇
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Prices and Supply, and How Landlords Control Them Attempts to solve the affordable housing crisis rely on a flawed understanding of housing economics and landlord business practices. In reality, landlords are colluding to manipulate the market.

Today, Renee Tapp argues that recent attempts to solve the affordable housing crisis rely on a flawed understanding of housing economics and landlord business practices.

To address the high price of housing, we must recognize it for what it is: an antitrust issue.

don't forget to throw in Austin's busty lady drinking a milkshake (I'm assuming)

Atlanta surveillance camera network mapping with Taylor Shelton Using APD data obtained via open records request, Taylor Shelton maps Atlanta's camera network and explores the city's surveillance strategy.

Through an open records request, the Atlanta Community Press Collective obtained a list of City of Atlanta-owned surveillance cameras and automated license plate readers.

Geographer Taylor Shelton mapped the locations of those cameras, showing which neighborhoods are most heavily surveilled.

(Sun)Belt Publishing

How's an ATL edition sound?

City of Cameras Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. With 124.14 surveillance cameras per 1,000 people, we not only lead the country, we have more than twice as many cameras per capita as 2nd …

Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States.

But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these 60,000+ cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations...

Until now. Read more 👇👇

very upsetting when your wife, who studies environmental conservation, refuses to study prairie dog habitat conservation even though this organization has the cutest logo in the entire world

Atlanta tenants say they’re being wrongly labeled as squatters amid unsafe living conditions On Friday, some tenants returned home to find their belongings outside.

Across the country, new "squatting laws" are being weaponized against tenants.

In Atlanta, Bolden Capital Group is using this law to force out families who paid rent—after leaving them in units with no power, collapsing ceilings, and rampant mold.

Landlords are terrorizing people with impunity.

INVESTIGATION: Dickens admin uses Housing Trust Fund to pay bonds, employee salaries “From the very beginning, this looked too much like a slush fund, and not enough like a housing trust fund.”

Atlanta’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund, formed to bankroll housing initiatives, is now being used to cover bond debt and staff salaries — a shift that’s alarmed advocates and city officials.

For @atlantaciviccircle.org:
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Was literally just at a wedding where I made a joke to an actual medical doctor about being the wrong kind of doctor on a plane and he told me that being a critical social scientist was more important.

Sons of Good Fathers, by Jonathon Sturgeon On some killings in Kentucky

Every Louisvillian ought to read and sit with this for awhile. Kind of hard to do anything but just sit with something this heavy. Fuck.

I don't care what people have to say about SGA, because I say CAYUTS. #BBN

APD: expect more active shooter training events ahead of FIFA World Cup games Currently, Baker Street NW is closed down in both directions around the aquarium. The training goes until 11 p.m.

THEN WHAT THE FUCK WAS COP CITY FOR?!?!?!

Metro level stats provide an average, but as @jtsphd.bsky.social shows in his work, it is the intra-metro geography here that is key. Institutional investor owned single-family rentals are over 80-90% in some Metro Atlanta neighborhoods

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And guess what, private equity firms alone own ~25% of all multifamily apartment units in the Atlanta metro as well!

There's a talking point out there that the financialization of housing has no significant impact on the housing costs that tenants struggle with. That talking point is incorrect.

Do I, as a tenured college professor, feel bad about going to another university for an event run by a student group and eating their free pizza? No I do not, because this university is RICH and my university is POOR. 🍕

Now that I've had a full day to recover from the finale, allow me to express my disappointment that Righteous Gemstones never had any Christian puppetry components

If you're a candidate for local elected office - especially in Atlanta - wearing these boots is a major 🚩🚩🚩

Whatever the potentially valid reason may be, the symbolism here is... something.

Don't forget to register for next week's 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium! We hope to see you at Morehouse on May 2nd!

Program: atlantastudies.org/2025/04/08/a...

Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This makes me die inside

Choropleth map showing the percentage of apartment units owned by private equity by state across the United States. Georgia is highlighted showing that 22.8% of apartment units are owned by private equity firms

New research out from friends at @pestakeholder.bsky.social shows that private equity firms own 10% of all apartment units across the United States, and upwards of 20% of all apartments here in Georgia, the highest share of any state

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It was great, especially after disappointing finales to White Lotus and 1923 last week. We got to it a day late because I was, ironically, busy doing things in Pittsburgh, but can't wait for S2.

How is it that me *being in* Pittsburgh right now is keeping me from watching the season finale of The Pitt? Cruel, cruel irony.